housekeeping

As in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping, feelings of transience and survival are ever present. With the pureness of the night, signs of comfort would make room for uncertainty, aloneness, emptiness, stillness, susceptibility and for memory, later to be followed by an unmatched strength and openness for fresh thoughts and ideas. Contemplating and attaching new stories and meanings to surviving gives opportunity for a spiritual richness.